Introducing the one and only Vincent Price to the show is THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (1940), directed by Joe May and co-starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Nan Grey. As the invisibility returns, will too the madness?Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 25:14; Discussion 33:08; Ranking 48:26

What happens when you mix Scotland Yard, Bela Lugosi, and author Edgar Wallace together? Why, the police procedural thriller THE DARK EYES OF LONDON (1939) from director Walter Summers! It received the H rating for 'Horrific' upon release, but is it really?Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 22:39; Discussion 28:30; Ranking 44:45…

Peer through the window pane for Tod Slaughter and George King's THE FACE AT THE WINDOW (1939), another Victorian horror film? Well, your deadicated hosts duke it out over whether this adaptation of the stage melodrama fits the bill or not.Just what does this vintage thriller have in store?Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 18:37; Discussion 24:39 ...…

Horror returns after a three-year gap with 1939's SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, directed by Rowland Lee. What changed in America that Universal Studios was willing to raise this dead genre? How far does this apple fall from the Frankenstein tree? And how do Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, and Bela Lugosi stand in comparison to Boris Karloff as the Monste ...…

It's the last horror flick before the three year break the world took from horror between 1936 to 1939... Boris Karloff stars in THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND (1936), from director Robert Stevenson.We share what caused film industries around the world to change their mind about horror as we review this film from Gainsborough Pictures.Context set ...…

Your deadicated hosts cover Eddie Mannix, A Merritt, and more in the last horror film from Tod Browning: THE DEVIL-DOLL (1936)!With giant over-sized props, a dark family drama, and a cross-dressing toymaker, this film is anything but boring.Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 16:35; Discussion 27:13; Ranking 41:38…

The Halperin Brothers return in the 1936 independent American horror film REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES! Hoping to return to their WHITE ZOMBIE success, the Halperins head to... Cambodia? To look for... zombies?? In the midst of a... love triangle???Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 29:27; Discussion 37:45; Ranking 46:40…

Your deadicated hosts dive into the demise of the Laemmle Family and the last gasp of the American horror boom... all this and more in the very complicated background of Lambert Hillyer's 1936 DRACULA'S DAUGHTER!Just what is vampirism being used as a metaphor for? From queerness to mental health to addiction, the lines are blurry but your hosts ...…

The Warner Brothers try their hand at horror yet again with 1936's THE WALKING DEAD starring show favourite Boris Karloff and directed by Michael Curtiz. See just what this film noir-prototype has to offer...Hint: it's not zombies!Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 23:55; Discussion 30:29; Ranking 54:14…

It's part two of horror in Nazi Germany! Your deadicated hosts cover FÄHRMANN MARIA, a 1936 horror/occult film directed by Franz Wysbar and starring Sybille Schmitz & Peter Voss.What happened to the film industry before, during and after WWII? Why do horror films end in Nazi Germany? And how has German Expressionism morphed from its first incar ...…

Your deadicated hosts travel to Nazi Germany for one of two horror films made in the Third Reich... What did the Nazification of the German film industry look like? We get a pretty good idea from this 1935 remake of DER STUDENT VON PRAG starring Anton Walbrook, Theodor Loos, and Dorothea Wieck; directed by Arthur Robison.Context setting 00:00; ...…

Boris Karloff and Boris Karloff star in the 1935 Columbia horror THE BLACK ROOM, directed by Roy William Neill! Joining Karloff is Marian Marsh, Robert Allen, Thurston Hall, and Katherine DeMille!This well-structured film shows us how to go beyond painting-by-numbers and experience the thrill of seeing how the pieces come together.Context setti ...…

The monster demands a mate! Your deadicated hosts dive into Whale's 1935 sequel BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN! Featuring the return of Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, and Ernest Thesiger, and introducing Elsa Lanchester into horror!What is the relationship of horror to camp? To goth or queer culture? And, of course, a thorough discussion of how BRIDE relat ...…

On a very special episode of Scream Scene: your deadicated hosts tackle the Hollywood Motion Picture Production Code, William H Hays, Joseph Breen, and how the 1934 amendment and enforcement affected horror, and all, films until 1968.

MANIAC, also known as SEX MANIAC is your deadicated hosts' first foray into exploitation horror -- and certainly won't be the last. Beware, this 1934 Dwain Esper classic is something to be experienced to truly be believed!Context setting 00:00; synopsis 21:20; discussion 37:23; ranking 43:37.

Columbia Pictures offers us our last pre-code horror film: the disappointing BLACK MOON (1934) directed by Roy William Neill and starring Jack Holt, Fay Wray, and Dorothy Burgess. Based off the 1933 novel of the same name by Clements Ripley. It's, uh, not good.

The film that could not possibly fail... your deadicated hosts review Edgar G Ulmer's 1934 pre-code classic THE BLACK CAT, bringing together Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, with third wheels David Manners and Julie Bishop.Hungary and Austria collide in this film about a satanic cultist by a Czech director. To contextualize this conflict, we cove ...…

Boris Karloff returns to the UK and to the show with T Hayes Hunter's 1933 THE GHOUL; our first British horror film, and the first film rated H for horror!Context setting 00:00; synopsis 20:08; discussion 32:49; ranking 50:57

Your deadicated hosts review Paramount Pictures' 1933 MURDERS IN THE ZOO, featuring the myriad of actors who either before or after this movie had established careers in law, politics, and the military. Plus, the spooky history of zoos!Context setting 00:00; synopsis 27:32; discussion 45:36; ranking 1:11:32…

In this adaptation of HG Wells' "The Island of Doctor Moreau," the deadicated hosts dive in to Erle C Kenton's 1932 ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, starring Charles Laughton and Richard Arlen, a film banned in the UK for showing vivisection and its transgressive subject matter.Context setting 00:00; plot summary 28:52; discussion 39:20; ranking 1:16:45…

The deadicated hosts review the second James Whale film for the list: 1932's OLD DARK HOUSE, starring Boris Karloff & a merry cast. What we find locked in the closet is a horror that we all can relate to...This classic goes on to define the genre of Old Dark House horror, and with good reason. From the novel adaptation, to the character-driven ...…

Carl Th Dreyer's 1932 horror film VAMPYR is exhumed and discussed in this episode of Scream Scene! How does it fare in comparison to Epstein's Fall of the House of Usher?Context 00:00; plot summary 32:52; discussion 49:42; ranking 1:23:53

The deadicated hosts cover the film that ruined two men’s careers… 1932’s MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, starring Bela Lugosi, directed by Robert Florey. What happened behind the scenes to make this transgressive horror film so disjointed? Context setting 00:00; plot summary 32:31; discussion 50:03; ranking 1:11:45…

Meet Tod Browning's cast of FREAKS from 1932! Our deadicated hosts learn the production history of this unique film, share details about a few of the performers, and discuss how FREAKS fits within a unique horror subgenre.Context setting 00:00; plot summary 25:55; discussion 41:27; ranking 1:01:35

The deadicated hosts take on James Whale's 1931 classic Frankenstein! Starring Colin Clive and Boris Karloff. From Mary Shelley's life and the novel's origins, to the film's unique production history, there's all that and more in this terror-filled episode!Mary Shelley and novel background 00:00; film background 33:34; plot summary 51:25; discu ...…

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